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Portsmouth Speakers and Registration

Portsmouth NH Hosts Tenth Keeping History Above Water® Conference May 7-9, 2023 for Portsmouth NH 400th Anniversary During the record-breaking December holiday storm, the...

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Keeping History Above Water®: Portsmouth Call for Speakers

Strawbery Banke Museum, the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Planning Department and DPW Water | Wastewater | Stormwater Division, the University of New Hampshire (UNH)...

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Newport Restoration Foundation and City of Newport Select Consultant for City’s Design Guidelines for Elevating Historic Buildings

The Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) and the City of Newport have selected Phil Thomason of Thomason and Associates to develop graphics for the City’s Design...

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City of Newport adopts guidelines for elevating houses

“The City of Newport is proud to be one of the first communities in the country to adopt standards designed to help protect some of...

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In the News: ‘We Cannot Save Everything’

“Doris Duke did a wonderful thing fifty-some years ago when she preserved these Colonial houses,” he said. “Here we are 50 years later, and it...

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America Adapts

It’s official: Keeping History Above Water has entered the wonderful world of podcasts. Doug Parsons, the host of America Adapts: The Climate Change Podcast, joined...

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Keeping History Above Water in Florida

A recent piece in CityLab describing how a coalition of archaeologists are working to protect historic resources threatened by rising sea levels, storms, and erosion. The piece...

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4 Lessons from Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis

The second Keeping History Above Water conference concluded on November 1 in Annapolis, Maryland, and we have already published day-by-day coverage of the conference’s keynotes,...

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Rising Tides Awarded Kaplan Innovation Grant

It’s a good day for social innovator and two-time Keeping History Above Water alumna Victoria Hermann. This morning, the JM Kaplan Fund awarded Victoria its...

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Keeping History Above Water 2017: Day 3

The third day of Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis began with a conversation about how the US Navy is responding to flooding and sea level rise,...

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Keeping History Above Water 2017: Day 2

Day two of Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis saw improved weather in Annapolis and a full slate of speakers from a variety of disciplines. After welcoming...

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Keeping History Above Water 2017: Day 1

The second Keeping History Above Water conference began on October 29, on a rainy day in Annapolis, with high tides already overtopping the historic City Dock....

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Heritage in Resiliency Planning

In early October of 2017, the San Francisco Planning Commission voted unanimously to close a portion of the Great Highway, a multi-lane expressway running along Ocean...

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The Inevitability of Loss

As the effects of climate change on our cultural heritage become clearer, preservationists are increasingly facing the reality that it will not be possible to...

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Planning in the Wake of Disaster

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, preservationists along the Gulf Coast and Caribbean are beginning to clean up, assess damage, and plan for...

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Is it enough?

Keeping History Above Water aims to advance knowledge and adaptation strategies for coastal communities facing the impacts of climate related sea level rise and flooding. But...

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KHAW: ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

Newport, RI, June 27, 2017 – The Newport Restoration Foundation and the City of Annapolis are pleased to announce that the official program for the second Keeping...

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Rhode Island Stands Up for Science

Rhode Island to Join States in Paris Climate Agreement Pact

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Climate & Heritage Jobs, Internships, and Events

Do you work at the intersection of heritage and climate change? Are you a student looking gain experience and meet others in the field of heritage...

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Voices from the Field
Anna Woodham

Talking about climate change and saving heritage has been Dr. Anna Woodham‘s focus for the past two years. Woodham, a lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management at...

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Museums: We Need to Talk About Climate Change

Museums, like almost almost everything else, will be affected by changing temperatures, sea levels, shifting tourist seasons, and other climate change impacts. However, from their...

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Protect. Prepare. Conserve.

For obvious reasons, discussions about climate change and the built environment often begin with places where visible impacts can be seen and marked. Following Hurricane...

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/coastaladaptationstrategies.htm

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Material Vulnerability & Climate Change

Historic structures were built to withstand the weather conditions of their immediate environments – but what happens when climate patterns change and sea levels rise? Researchers in the...

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Preservation Policy for a Changing World

How we choose to save the past has everything to do with the present.

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Pop Quiz: Climate Impacts on Iconic Historic Sites

When you picture the effects of climate change, what comes to mind? Is it the polar ice caps melting? Stronger storms? Debilitating drought and water bans?

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FloodList: Protecting Heritage Resources

From FloodList.com, December 21, 2016, written by Ed Hill. | Excerpt from article featuring Keeping History Above Water and 74 Bridge St Case Study Keeping...

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22 #CLIMATEACTIONS from COP22

Leading up to COP22, we posted 22 strategies to heritage sustainability, and we’ve rounded up all 22 #climateactions here as a springboard into cutting-edge research in...

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The Climate and Cultural Heritage Family Grows

COP22 – the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – is now taking place in Marrakech,...

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When Climate Changes Your Dinner Plate

Imagine the regional cuisines we love today without their fundamental ingredients — Italian dishes without tomato or New England clam chowder without clams…

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Safeguarding Heritage Above and Below Water

Sea-level rise is a threat to historic buildings and structures along our coastlines, but shipwrecks and submerged sites are already underwater…so they’re safe, right? Maybe...

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Interdisciplinary Partnerships: We’re All in This Together

As it turns out, launching the inaugural Keeping History Above Water conference this past April was only the beginning. Over the last five months, all of...

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New Orleans Changes How It Handles Rain and Flooding

Read conference panelist and presenter David Waggonner's take on New Orleans

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Call for Papers

NRF is in the process of creating an edited book on the threats of rising sea level/riverine flooding to historic buildings, places, and landscapes.

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Conference Publication: Call for Mini-Papers

The conference may be over, but the work continues!

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A shifting coastline in Connecticut

Conference organizers and participants bring the conversation to Bridgeport, Connecticut

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Conference Website Receives Museum Publication Honors

HistoryAboveWater.org wins First Place in the website category

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Climate Heritage Coalition Enters Its Second Year

Get Pocantico updates from 2015 and read about the 2016 action agenda

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Continuing to Keep History Above Water

Hear about the conference tweets, take-aways, and what's next

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Hazard Mitigation: Expecting the Unexpected

A deep-dive into the National Flood Insurance Policy

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Postcards from the Edge

Find new tools to preserve the built environment

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A Unity of Purpose: Keeping History Above Water & The Pocantico Call to Action

A reconvening of the Pocantico Call to Action Coalition at Trinity Church, in Newport

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7 lessons from our Closing Roundtable

What have we learned and where do we go from here?

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4 Lessons from Day 2

Capturing main topics from presentations and panelists of "Postcards from the Edge," the second day of the conference.

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It’s begun: Day 1

Finishing up the first day of the conference with walking tours and excursions while looking ahead to Day 2, "Postcards from the Edge." Read more to see a full schedule, great links, and much more.

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Worth a Thousand Words: Picturing the next generation of historic preservation

Students and emerging professionals

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Crowdsourcing Solutions to Sea Level Rise

Find out how some have engaged groups of people - from students to regular citizens - to design solutions for sea level rise.

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All About the Buildings

Meet the people that focus on the actual structures of preservation and sea level rise, from elevating buildings to practical planning on flood insurance.

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From Federal to State to Municipal: The role of government in protecting our coastal heritage

No matter where the problems occur or what the solutions may be, governments will need to be major stakeholders.

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National and International Experts to Speak on Sea Level Rise and Historic Preservation

Major institutions and organizations, academia, city and state governments to attend.

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Coverage for Keeping History Above Water

Features in the news about Keeping History Above Water - for you to share, comment on, propel conversation, or simply browse.

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Sea Level Rise: A Modern Threat with a Long History

Our approaches may be new, but the problems are as old as nature itself. Read about the presentations and panelists that will inform solutions with their personal experience and expertise.

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Get Credit for Helping Us Make History

Keeping History Above Water will be a compelling, enriching experience – and now it will be accredited professional development, as well.

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Conference Information

Have a question about the conference? Want to buy tickets or find out more information? Click on this post to discover the program, ticket options, and tools.

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Report highlights impacts and regulations, by the numbers

What is the value of property that may be impacted by flood regulations in Newport?

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International Conference on the Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage

What can be done to protect historic buildings, landscapes, and neighborhoods from the increasing threat of sea level rise?

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Newport Hit With Flooding After Storms, High Tide

GoLocalProv features a February flooding event that took place in Newport and interviews NRF Executive Director Pieter Roos about the conference, Keeping History Above Water.

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74 Bridge Street Project: A Model Approach to Sea Level Rise is Funded

A two-day workshop sets in motion solutions to sea level rise

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Why Museums are Tackling Climate Change

NRF looks to the future in this post on the Center for the Future of Museums blog...

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Official Conference Press Release

Conference on the preservation of the built environment in the face of rising seas, April 10-13.

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Museums & Climate Resilience: Working with Your Community

The Center for the Future of Museums at the American Alliance of Museums references our conference in this TrendsWatch 2015 post...

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Living on the Edge Conference, October 22 & 23

Our colleagues at the Galveston Historical Foundation are convening the second annual Living on the Edge Conference this October 22 and 23. Galveston, Texas has...

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Continuing the conversation about preservation and climate change

Newport has always drawn its vitality from the sea, and this same element now poses a serious threat to the city’s heritage. That threat—and possible responses to it—will be the focus of the upcoming conference...

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Climate Change in Newport

Pieter N. Roos, Executive Director of the Newport Restoration Foundation, published a guest post for the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Leadership Forum on the effects of climate change in Newport...